Engraving On Flat Colour

Illustration · Engraving · Line

Recipe

The style is the recipe. The subject is yours.

The examples above were generated with Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 4.5. The recipes below are written for GPT Image and Flux, so treat the settings as a starting point rather than the exact run.

A description in plain sentences. This is the version to start with, and it works on any current image model. Settings below are the ones we used on GPT Image; treat them as a starting point.

Make it yours

This recipe describes a treatment rather than a thing. Put your own subject in and it is added to the end of the prompt.

Prompt

A head drawn entirely in fine engraved line, parallel hatching and cross hatching building all of the tone, printed in one single ink colour, placed on a completely flat saturated background with no texture or gradient whatsoever. The antique density of the line against the modern flat ground is the point. Nothing else in the frame, no border, no lettering. Subject: a young man with thick curling hair.

The prompt gets you close. Feed one of the examples in as a style reference for the rest. Download the images

Use the examples as a reference

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.